American Concrete Pumping Association Announces New Safety Director

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The ACPA announced its first dedicated safety director: Tabah Nez. This inaugural position was created to further ACPA’s safety and certification programs for concrete pumping professionals. As ACPA Safety Director, Nez will be responsible for developing and overseeing all safety and risk management activities, including safety programs, committees, bulletins and resources. His role will be instrumental in developing the training curriculum for ACPA University, an online training platform to be launched January 2023. Nez brings to this position 23 years of professional hands-on experience in the areas of occupational, safety and health management; environmental health and safety management; risk prevention … Read more

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Swinerton, Mercy Housing California Inspire Next Generation of Builders, Architects, Engineers at ‘Minds Under Construction’ Steam Festival

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Swinerton, in collaboration with affordable housing provider Mercy Housing California, announced dozens of youths participated in the “Minds Under Construction” festival in San Francisco’s Sunnydale neighborhood on Nov. 5. At the event, which was dedicated to advancing understanding and inspiring passion for the fields of science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics, participants worked with 3D printers and learned about designing earthquake-safe homes, working with electrical circuitry and water engineering. Swinerton staff partnered with MHC’s resident services team to bring this enriching day of STEAM exploration to families living at Sunnydale, a diverse but under-invested neighborhood undergoing a community-based revitalization initiative … Read more

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Overcoming Skills Gap Focus of NCCER’s Construction Career Pathways Conference  

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The National Center for Construction Education and Research will host its Construction Career Pathways Conference Nov. 30. This conference is a one-day event held as a prelude to the Association for Career and Technical Education’s CareerTech VISION 2022 Conference.   This year’s Construction Career Pathways Conference will cover important topics, including best practices for establishing education and industry partnerships, incorporating technology into construction education and success stories from up-and-coming young craft professionals. Networking and team activities will take place throughout the day between presentations.   Held in Las Vegas, Nevada, the event will take place from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. at … Read more

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Peppa Pig Theme Park Earns DBIA Award

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Peppa Pig Theme Park, the first standalone theme park in the world dedicated solely to the cartoon pig and her friends, has earned a 2022 Design-Build Institute of America Florida Region Merit Award in the civic/assembly category. Located in Winter Haven, Florida, near LEGOLAND Florida, the theme park adds to Barton Malow’s theme park construction portfolio. It offers an immersive experience via rides, attractions and play spaces. The children’s amusement park is also autism center certified and aligned with the proper components for maintaining an autism-friendly environment. Barton Malow and The Lunz Group worked together to design and construct this … Read more

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USGBC Announces Updates to LEED v4

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The U.S. Green Building Council announced updates to the primary version of the LEED green building certification program, LEED v4, to more directly address carbon emissions and climate change. With the change, building design and construction and Interior design and construction projects will be able to demonstrate improvement in energy performance with LEED v4.1’s metric of energy cost or greenhouse gas emissions in addition to LEED v4’s original source energy metric. For the last nine years, LEED v4 has been the primary and balloted version of LEED green building certification. However, its guidelines on reducing energy demand focused first on … Read more

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